#Army #vet ruled ineligible for state office due to homelessness

A Republican House candidate who claims to have been homeless and living in the back of her pickup while dodging the cops in Muldoon has been ruled ineligible for office on residency grounds. Barbara Bachmeier, seeking the Republican nomination for House District 13, will have to go to court if she wants to challenge the decision of the director of the Division of Elections, Gail Fenumiai. With ballots due to be printed this week and mailed to overseas Alaskans by the weekend, the time for a challenge is short, Fenumiai said Tuesday. Bachmeier, a real estate agent and Army veteran who says she has a stress-related disability, now owns her own home in the district, which also includes a portion of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. Advertisement But for about two of the 12 months necessary to establish her residency in the district, she said she lived in a camper shell on the...